Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Street" is notable amongst the poems in the number. Though one feels an echo of the Dowson kind of poetry, the echo is passed on with a new voice, a voice not so sickly and more ingenuous. In Mr. W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez' "Clerk o' Cardiff" there's a whiff of good story, an insistent refrain, and a manner of words and rhythms reminiscent of Kipling through Alfred Noyes. "Persicos Odi Puer", a happy immigrant translation from Horace by Mr R. J. Walsh, might perhaps have taken even more advantage of its "freedom...
...John '02, has as its familiar theme the heroic college man who goes out in search of unusual experience and meets the traditional impressionable girl with whom he promptly falls in love. Still, the story gives us an interesting glimpse of a cattle ship and some little whiff of salt...
...flower may possibly be a mere combination of grass, a whiff of vapor; but it is not also far more? What is to be said of its beauty, of the mystery surrounding its growth? The cross itself is but a couple of beams; but does this tell of it as a refuge for the sinner, as a triumphant emblem of faith? Surely this faith is the real thing, worth having, not the power to analyze that of others. Science has its place, but it has also its limitations. For one thing, the spiritual life cannot be weighed or measured...